Refactoring is a key element of many agile software development methods. While most developers associate small design changes with the term refactoring (as described by Martin Fowl...
Refactoring makes existing source code more understandable and reusable without changing observable behavior. Therefore, applying refactorings to existing source code and reversin...
Abstract. Refactoring is the process of improving the design of existing programs without changing their functionality. These notes cover refactoring in functional languages, using...
We demonstrate a new approach to refactoring which involves the decomposition of familiar high-level refactorings such as Extract method into their components. By understanding al...
Software has been and is still mostly refactored without tool support. Moreover, as we found in our case studies, programmers tend not to document these changes as refactorings, o...